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[prescientblade]

I've been thinking more and more about the future lately.

[She has a tiredness in her voice that some of you might be familiar with. Behind that is a thin whistle of wind, and the soft patter of water dropping somewhere nearby from the recent rain.]It's strange, I never used to. I had no reason to. I knew what my destiny was at home, in the

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[Voice]

[swordofthenorth]

Let her remain missing. Perhaps that abomination will soon follow her.

[Voice]

[prescientblade]

I don't intend to abandon my colleagues for the sake of you feeling safer at night, Isley.

[Voice]

[swordofthenorth]

I do not fear for my safety, I simply do not see the reason in prolonging its life.

As for Dietrich, doubtless she is gone of her own accord. It is not abandoning her in such an instance, Teresa.

[Voice]

[prescientblade]

Because it threatens your safety.

[She exhales sharply.]

I looked for the others. The least I could do is look for her too. What makes you so convinced she left of her own accord?

[lilbloodeyes]

Gone. One aura gone.

[prescientblade]

[...not what she wants to hear.]

You're certain?

[lilbloodeyes]

Mmhmm.

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[transitorychild]

I don't care about my future. I don't really care about my past either. There's no point to it, so why bother?

[video]

[prescientblade]

No point to your past? I'd have thought that would be the important part.

What does that leave you with?

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[transitorychild]

If I can't remember it, there's no point to it.

The present. That's the most important part.

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[theotokos]

When we're capable of dying here, yes, why not worry about the future? But that doesn't mean that it's set in stone. Every choice and action that we consider will alter it.

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[prescientblade]

Are you so certain of that? What about the people who can predict what will happen, who see things in dreams? And what about the people who come back when they die?

Death doesn't have a great foothold here.

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[theotokos]

If death doesn't have a great foothold here, how can you be so sure of the future being set in stone?

Those kind of beliefs are nothing more than something to hold you down. You can't live the rest of your life in fear thinking that whatever you do, your future won't change.

[yetsleeping]

I think for someone like you... the future is what you make it.

It's different for others - the ones who haven't-- [DIED.] ...mm. The ones who can go back.

[prescientblade]

I've been thinking the same thing since I came here.

[She doesn't say anything about how her future-forging is going, however.]

Still, the Door could always decide to send me back, couldn't it? I doubt it cares whether or not I have anything to return to.

[yetsleeping]

That's true. But I guess my point is...

None of us know whether they're going back or not. Or when, if they do. So all we can do is go forward, right?

....I've been here longer than anyone, now. Which means I keep waiting to disappear.